Topics/Call fo Papers

During the last two decades, developments in smart cars, vehicular communications, autonomous cars, and electric vehicles are revolutionising the future of smart cities and human transportation. With the rapid emerging of Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Energy (IoE) technologies and their integration with our surroundings, we are heading to a new era of highly connected and environmental friendly ecosystem in which we will thrive. This book aims to give a broad overview and deep insights into the latest developments in Smart Mobility, including the latest standards and regulations, technologies, research directions, security and safety, privacy, legal and ethical issues, and future trends. It also looks at the Car-to-X transportation/communication/computing paradigms including Internet of Vehicles (IoV), vehicular clouds, vehicular social networking, and emerging killer applications with these enabling technologies supported.
The book will provide a unique overview of the broad development in Smart Mobility from different technical perspectives. It will cover state-of-the-are developments in standards, applications, technologies (including future communications ones such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence, etc.), governmental efforts, auto industry solutions and research trends/efforts in this field. Furthermore, this book will provide a reference for professionals and researchers in the areas of Smart Mobility (e.g., autonomous valet parking, electric vehicle charging, railway scheduling, bike sharing in smart city) and recent technical trends on their enabling technologies.
Chapters dealing with the following aspects (but not limited to) are welcome:
Smart Mobility in Smart cities (smart parking, smart electric vehicle charging, railway network scheduling, UAV operation management, smart logistics, Ridesharing, Car sharing, On demand ride services, Mobility as a Service)
Human centric services integrated with Smart Mobility (social sciences, human interception)
Energy management in Smart Mobility – Smart grids
Vehicle-to-X communications paradigms for Smart Mobility
Edge/Cloud computing framework in Smart Mobility
ICN/SDN system architecture in Smart Mobility
Security and Privacy in Smart Mobility
Cyber Insurance for Autonomous driving
Business models and sustainable economic models for Smart Mobility
Legislations, regulations, standards and governance challenges of Smart Mobility
Crowdsourcing architectures for Smart Mobility applications: Internet of X
Big data analytics for Smart Mobility
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Smart Mobility
Important Dates
The chapter proposal should be 1-2 pages long. It should describe the topic of the chapter including the following information: the organisation of the chapter and anticipated number of pages. With the chapter proposal, please also submit a brief biography of each author. Submissions should be sent to all editors.
Proposal submission deadline: 10 May 2018
Notification of proposal acceptance: 14 June 2018
Full chapter draft submission deadline: 15 Sept 2018
Chapter review to authors: 15 Nov 2018
Final chapter submission deadline: 31 Dec 2018
Book submission to WS Publishing: 31 Jan 2019
Final Manuscript Submission: Latex or word templates will be provided for formatting the chapters.
Editors & Contact
Dr Mahmoud Hashem Eiza (mhashemeiza-AT-uclan.ac.uk), University of Central Lancashire, UK
Dr Yue Cao (yue.cao-AT-northumbria.ac.uk), Northumbria University, UK
Dr Lexi Xu (xulx29-AT-chinaunicom.cn), China Unicom, Beijing, China